[OE-core] [PATCH] libarchive: add missing e2fsprogs dependency

[Paul Barker]

On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 11:25:31AM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 10:18:41AM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> >>
> >> Oops, sent too early - bug link:
> >>
> >> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6268
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Paul
> >>
> >
> > I just had a quick look at this as I've done a bit of work with libarchive. It
> > looks like as long as the header isn't found at configure time there's no
> > problem at compile time. Could we work around this by modifying config.h in a
> > do_configure_append() function to undefine the relevant symbol
> > (HAVE_EXT2FS_EXT2_FS_H)?
> 
> It can be disabled in many ways and easiest is to cache the autconf
> variable and set it to 'no'
> but we loose The EXT2 ioctls that are used on Linux to get/set file
> flags since our build systems
> are mostly linux I would think this is a good thing to enable in libarchive.

Yea that makes a lot more sense. I was in effect replying to the bug report
saying "There is no way to hard-disable this dependency.".

Sounds like it's worth using that header if possible though so ignore my
comment.

Cheers,

-- 
Paul Barker

Email: paul at paulbarker.me.uk
http://www.paulbarker.me.uk
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